Isaiah Chapter 8

722 B.C.

The word "Israel" can be used to refer to the northern kingdom, Israel, or to the entire nation OF Israel, depending on the context.

Northern Kingdom = House of Israel (Isaachar, Benjamin, Gad, Ephraim, Manasseh, Zebulon, Levi, Reuben, Joseph, Dan)
Southern Kingdom = House of Judah (Judah, Simeon)
Assyria is becoming the dominant world power

2 Kings 16, 2 Chronicles 29: (CONTEXT)
2 Kings 16:

• Ahaz king of Judah (Aged 20 to age 36, 732-716 B.C.)
• Idolater, made son to pass through the fire
• Burnt incense in the high places
• When siege (below) fails, turns to Tiglath-Peleser for assistance to counter-attack Pekah

• Pekah, king of Israel (735 to 732 B.C.)
• Heb. פֶּקַח; "He [God] has opened [His eyes]," i.e., given heed
• Rezin king of Syria and Pekah come against Ahaz in a siege
• The siege fails

Judah and Simeon in the South...........Ten tribes to the north, all conquered by Assyria, and the "the lost ten tribes" idea starts.....they are not lost and never were.

THE "LOST TEN TRIBES OF ISRAEL"-NOT LOST!
2 Chronicles, 11:14, Levites go North--------->South (do not disappear) v. 16 (Everyone else faithful to went SOUTH) (2 Chronicles 11:16) And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers.

Assyria and the northern kingdom (House of Israel) conspire to attack Judah and Jerusalem, but God says it will fail.

(Isaiah 8:1)
Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.

• The first son was called, Shearjashub, "The remnant shall return"

  (Isaiah 7:3) Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;

• The name Mahershalalhashbaz means, "making speed to the spoil; he hastens to the prey"
• Literally, "Plunder speedeth, and booty hasteth"

(Isaiah 8:2)
And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

• This is why we have the Bible, and especially Isaiah-faithful witnesses who simply recorded it

FAITHFUL WITNESSES

The Throne of David
(Psalms 89:37)
It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

Contrasted with a false witness
(Proverbs 14:5)
A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

Instrument of Trust (THE LORD)
(Jeremiah 42:5)
Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us

The LORD Jesus Christ
(Revelation 1:5)
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

(Isaiah 8:3)
And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.

• Isaiah's wife delivers Mahershalalhashbaz
• This means the clock that started ticking is now winding down (Isaiah 7:16)

(Isaiah 8:4)
For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

• About maybe a year before Syria is attacked by Assyria

(Isaiah 8:5-6)
The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,  Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

• They seek "peace", of course with the alliance with Pekah, son of Remaliah
• This continues today, "land for "peace"
• This will continue into Revelation (1 Thessalonians 5:3)

"PEACE"

(Jeremiah 6:14)
They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

(Isaiah 48:22)
There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.

(Isaiah 57:21)
There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

REAL PEACE

(Isaiah 9:6)
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

(Isaiah 8:7)
Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

• Literally, the Euphrates
• Literally, also, coming in like a flood
• God in His Sovereignty does this, allows this, not man. It is only by His permission
• The glory of the king of Assyria is short lived, temporal, as is all of man's glory

A FLOOD OF THE ENEMY:
(Isaiah 59:19)
So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

(Jeremiah 46:8)
Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.

(Revelation 17:15)
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

(1 Samuel 17:47)
And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD'S, and he will give you into our hands.

THE GLORY OF MAN
1 Peter 1:24-25
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

(Isaiah 8:8)
And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

• This is God's judgment, and it is large, complete
• Either God is calling Israel IMMANUEL (unlikely) or repeating that He is with them, and referring to the LORD Jesus Christ-IMMANUEL
• They will literally be drowning in Assyrians, up to the neck

(Isaiah 8:9)
Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.

• Warning to not ally with Assyria
• Anyone who allies with them is to be destroyed

(Isaiah 8:10)
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

• Taking things into one's own hand versus trusting GOD is never good

(Isaiah 8:11-13)
For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

• Just a repetition of verse ten, with an admonition to return to the LORD Himself
• God does not want us to fear man
• With fearing God alone comes mercy

SANCTIFY
SANC'TIFY, v.t. [Low L. sanctifico; from sanctus, holy, and facio, to make.]
1. In a general sense, to cleanse, purify or make holy.
2. To separate, set apart or appoint to a holy, sacred or religious use.
God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. Gen 2.
So under the Jewish dispensation, to sanctify the altar, the temple, the priests, _c.
3. To purify; to prepare for divine service, and for partaking of holy things. Exo 19.
4. To separate, ordain and appoint to the work of redemption and the government of the church.
John 10.
5. To cleanse from corruption; to purify from sin; to make holy be detaching the affections from
the world and its defilements, and exalting them to a supreme love to God.
Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.
John 17. Eph 5.
6. To make the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety.
Those judgments of God are the more welcome, as a means which his mercy hath sanctified so to me, as to make me repent of that unjust act.
7. To make free from guilt.
That holy man amaz'd at what he saw, made haste to sanctify the bliss by law.
8. To secure from violation.
Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line.
To sanctify God, to praise and celebrate him as a holy being; to acknowledge and honor his holy
majesty, and to reverence his character and laws. Isa 8.
God sanctifies himself or his name, by vindicating his honor from the reproaches of the wicked,
and manifesting his glory. Ezek 36.

(Matthew 10:28)
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

(Joshua 10:25)
And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight.

(Luke 12:5)
But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

(Isaiah 41:10)
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

(Luke 1:50)
And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.

(Isaiah 8:14)
And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

• The word "Israel" is the entire nation here
• Northern Kingdom can be called "Ephraim" also
• A gin is a trap, snare

THE ROCK OF OFFENSE

(1 Peter 2:8)
And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

(Romans 9:33)
As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

THE GIN

GIN, n. [A contraction of engine.] A machine or instrument by which the mechanical powers are employed in aid of human strength. The word is applied to various engines, as a machine for driving piles, another for raising weights, _c., and a machine for separating the See ds from cotton, invented by E.Whitney, is called a cotton-gin. It is also the name given to an engine of torture, and to a pump moved by rotary sails.
1. A trap; a snare. GIN, v.t. To clear cotton of its See ds by a machine which separates them with expedition.
1. To catch in a trap.
GIN, v.i. To begin.

(Isaiah 8:15)
And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

• Broad is the road to destruction
• On a broad road, it is easy to turn around (repent). On a narrow road, the only way to turn around is to first LEAVE the roadside

(Matthew 7:13)
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

(Isaiah 8:16)
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

• This is because they do not want to see (chapter 6:9-10)
• For this God told them in chapter 1 HE would hide His Eyes from them

(Isaiah 1:15)
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 6:9-10
And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

(Isaiah 8:17)
And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

• a great way to renew one's strength

(Isaiah 40:31)
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

(Isaiah 8:18)
Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

• Both of Isaiah's sons were signs for the nation, through their names (Shearjashub and Mahershalalhashbazz)
• Hebrews quotes this verse

(Hebrews 2:13)
And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.

(Isaiah 8:19)
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?

• Dumb idols and false signs and wonders from people are declared as from the dead!
• Babbling tongues continue even today, as Gentiles in the church seek the same "signs and wonders"

(Isaiah 8:20)
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

• An express, very explicit command to go to God's own Word for answers, not dead people you knew and who cannot speak to you
• There is no light because of a lack of the Word and because of a lack of the Word there is no light in them!

(Isaiah 8:21)
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

BESTEAD', v.t. bested' pret.and pp. bested. [be and stead.] To profit.
How little you bestead.
1. To accommodate.
They shall pass through it, hardly bestead. Isa 8.
That is, distressed; perplexed.
2. To dispose.

• Looking up and cursing the God who blesses..........some things never change in mankind

Revelation 16:10-11
And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

(Isaiah 8:22)
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

• They prove that this world has nothing for us i it is what we look to for strength, guidance, assistance

Isaiah Chapter 7

Isaiah Chapter 7

(Isaiah 7:1)
And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

• Ahaz-pure, wicked evil

 (2 Chronicles 28:23)
For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

KING AHAZ

• Burnt incense in the high places (job of priests)
• Made idols to Ba'al
• Burnt his children in the fire as a sacrifice
• Pekah the son of Remaliah slew 120 K in a day for forsaking God
• During his reign, Zichri of Ephraim slaughtered
• Sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus,
• Gathered together the vessels of the house of God,
• Cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God,
• Shut up the doors of the house of the LORD,
• Made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
• Made high places to burn incense unto other gods,
• Provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.

(Isaiah 7:2)
And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.

• Ephraim is used as an idiom for the "House of Israel"
• The northern ten tribes conspire with Syria to take over the Southern Kingdom of Judah (Judah, Simeon).....below

(Isaiah 7:3)
Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;

• Shearjashub means "A remnant shall return"

(Isaiah 7:4)
And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

• "Not to worry"............
• Great way yo describe the enemies

(Isaiah 7:5-6)
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:

• Tabeal- Cryptographically, transposition in the Hebrew alphabet of 22 letters
• "Atbash" Jeremiah 25:26, 51:41, 59:1
• This one is albam........it is R-E-M-A-L-I-A-H
• This example is taught as one in ancient history in government cryptography classes

in encrypted Hebrew, transposition of exchanging letters called Albam or Atbash (Isaiah 7)
A B C D E F G H  I  J  K  L M Substitute for below
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y  Z Substitute for above

or

A B C D E F G H  I  J  K  L M Substitute for below
Z Y X W V U T S R Q P O N Substitute for above





http://www.khouse.org/articles/1998/145/


(Isaiah 7:7)
Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

• This plot is going to fail.........saith the LORD

(Isaiah 7:8)
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.

• In sixty five years, Ephraim is done

(Isaiah 7:9)
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

• It is repeated that it is not gonna happen.

(Isaiah 7:10-11)
Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,  Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

• This is, "anything you like"...........fire away!

 (Isaiah 7:12)
But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.

• He does not want to know anything from God, and is posturing as though he is humble

(Isaiah 7:13)
And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?

• Ahaz here is not the only one getting an answer to a request he did not make
• This then is not for you, it is for all of Israel

(Isaiah 7:14)
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

• The "you" is Israel
  
• The MESSIANIC BIRTH FORETOLD
• The Messiah was to be a kinsman-redeemer, not just a man
  
• The man has the seed (biology), so this was foretold all of the way back to Genesis

(Genesis 3:15)
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

(Matthew 1:23)
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

(Luke 1:31)
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.


(Isaiah 7:15)
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

• Butter and honey was the food of nomads, poor ones at that

(Isaiah 7:16)
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

• Back to Ahaz
• This may be about Isaiah's son Shearjashub  (v.3), or the Mesiaah to get to the age of accountability, or any child to get to that age......it is a limit of time

(Isaiah 7:3)
Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
GILL:
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good,.... This may be understood of Isaiah's child, Shearjashub, he had along with him, he was bid to take with him; and who therefore must be supposed to bear some part, or answer some end or other, in this prophecy; which it is very probable may be this, viz. to assure Ahaz and the house of David that the land which was abhorred by them should be forsaken of both its kings, before the child that was with him was grown to years of discretion; though it may be understood of any child, and so of the Messiah; and the sense be, that before any child, or new born babe, such an one as is promised, Isa 7:14, arrives to years of discretion, even in the space of a few years, this remarkable deliverance should be wrought, and the Jews freed from all fears of being destroyed by these princes:

(Isaiah 7:17-18)
The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

•  Assyria will be raised up to destroy Syria

(Isaiah 7:19)
And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

• This is akin to the term, "Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide"
  

(Isaiah 7:20)
In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

• The hired razor (Assyria), shall make sure that the authority, national identity and the priesthood in Israel is gone

(Isaiah 7:21)
And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;

• No large herds, just a cow and two sheep

(Isaiah 7:22)
And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

• Butter and honey again are poor people's food

(Isaiah 7:23)
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.

• Destruction and desolation of the land itself, here incapable of supporting much life

(Isaiah 7:24)
With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

• God is in charge of each arrow placement

(Isaiah 7:25)
And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

• The land is useless, unfruitful, for the oxen and lesser cattle to simply walk through and browse for very little in this desert
• It is no longer arable land

Matthew 13:3-9
And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;  And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

 

Isaiah Chapter 6

Isaiah 6:1-13

(Isaiah 6:1)
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

• The breach of the acts of Uzziah (2 Chronicles 26:16-19) in the end may have then festered into open rebellion by the people, even though not by Uzziah's son, Jotham
•  "yet the people did yet corruptly" (2 Chronicles 27:2)
• God's Glory, on the Throne, filling the temple..........we will see this one day
• God is still on the Throne for Isaiah, Israel, Judah and for us today
• God allows this because of what He is about to show Isaiah and ask him to do
• This exact year was the same year that Rome was founded............VERY IMPORTANT

2 Chronicles 27:1-2
Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok. And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.

UZZIAH (died 758 B.C.)

2 Chronicles 26:1-23 

VERSES 1-5
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.

• People made him king
• He was young
• Walked with God and prospered

VERSES 6-10
And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.
And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly.
Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.
Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

• Warred against the Philistines and Arabians
• Removed their strongholds (Gath and Ashdod)
• Became revered, even among his enemies
• Made Jerusalem a towered fortress
• Was a husbandman and vine dresser (KEY IN ISAIAH)

VERSES 11-15
Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.
And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.

• Had a large army
• Supplied with good ancient weapons
• Invented trebuchets, catapults, arrow launchers like a phalanx

VERSES 16-19
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.
Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.

• Allowed this to instill pride in himself and his achievements
• Flagrantly violated God's priestly laws
• Was rebuked by the High Priest and other priests
• Was judged and  became a leper, almost instantly

VERSES 20-23
And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him. And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.
Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

• Was rejected as a leper by the priests
• Was a leper until he died
• Was written about in this book of Isaiah
• Buried with his fathers, with the kings

(Isaiah 6:2)
Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

• The Glory of God fills the Throne Room, the earth and the entire cosmos
• They are in sync with the four beasts of Revelation 4:8

(Revelation 4:8)
And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

(Isaiah 6:4)
And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

• Sound moving doorposts by singing Holy, Holy, Holy............loudly!

(Isaiah 6:5)
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

• Any man in the flesh, seeing God's Throne, realizes his own sinful state, just as light reveals previously hidden wrinkles. 

(Isaiah 6:6)
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:

• How hot does it have to be if an ANGEL of GOD has to use tongs, or did he have to?

(Isaiah 6:7)
And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

• There is no works salvation, as Isaiah is not even involved.  He simply accepts, receives

(Isaiah 6:8)
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

• The "voice of the LORD is the "us", which here is a portrayal of the Trinity
• Isaiah is going on the mission field, for a mission to his own people, Israel and Judah
• The Trinity........whom shall **I** send, who will go for **us**.

(Isaiah 6:9)
And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

• God, already knowing their hearts, says they will not listen
• Jewish history records that Isaiah was sawn in half for his prophecies (Apocrypha, etc.)

Hebrews 11:36-37
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

(Isaiah 6:10)
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

• Essentially, let them be and let them enjoy their blessings, but it is blinding them, deafening them
• It is a heart issue (Matthew 13:14), a willful blindness on their own part
• They are deliberately allowing God's blessings to get in the way of God Himself
• THEY DO NOT WANT TO HEAR OR SEE, and their rebellious nature festers this
• The word "lest" indicates they are actually afraid of believing God!
• This is quoted in all four gospels, Acts, Romans and other prophets-take heed!
• After this point in the Gospels, Jesus only always spoke in parables in front of the Pharisees
  

Matthew 13:14-15
And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Mark 4:11-13
And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?

Luke 8:8-10 
And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?   And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

(John 12:40)
He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

Acts 28:26-27 (KJV)
Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

THE CAUSE IN THE SPIRITUAL REALM-"LEST"

2 Corinthians 4:3-4 
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

(Ezekiel 12:2)
Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.
(Romans 11:8)
(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

(Isaiah 6:11-12)
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

• "Preach the Word until the judgment is here"......until it is too late.

(Isaiah 6:13)
But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.

• The remnant which, like the main part of the plant (root, trunk, seeds), which winters through, looking dead, and yet every time arises, resurrects each spring, without fail.
• Acts 15
• Amos 9:11-12

Acts 15:16-17 (KJV)
After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
Amos 9:11-12 (KJV)
(Amos 9:11)
In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

(Amos 9:12)
That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.

(Genesis 8:22)
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Isaiah Chapter 5

Isaiah Chapter 5

(Isaiah 5:1)
Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

• Jesus, the wellbeloved, obviously loves Israel like a man's love for a woman

(Song of Solomon 1:13)
A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.

(Mark 12:6)
Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.

(Isaiah 5:2)
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

• Protected it, prepared it, planted it, chose the choicest domesticated vine, built a tower for overlooking and tended, the center of it being the best vantage point, built the press, waited
  
• The winepress was in the vineyard, so as to not have to carry the grapes home and waste time and flavour in the crops amd each vineyard owner had his own press
• In vineyards, this is all that needs to be done, thorough
• In Israel they were always and still are surrounded by stone walls
• The most pruning possibly done to any plant is needfully done to a vine, and even to the point of cutting to the very stump right after the vintage 

(Isaiah 5:3)
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

• A challenge to Israel to show any insufficencies in God's dealings with them  

(Isaiah 5:4)
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

• This is not the doings of the vineyard owner  nor his expectations for his grapes
  
• The only way to get wild grapes from domesticated ones is through deliberate grafting or replacing the vines with wild ones
• The vineyard owner would never do this

Matthew 7:16-20
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?  Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.  A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.  Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.  Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

(Isaiah 5:5-6)
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

• No protection from destroyers who eat, trample
• No pruning for fruit=no fruit or none good
• No weeding=weeds, thorns, pricker bushes
• No rain=drying and dying on the vine
• No vineyard left.............but perhaps a remnant
• Foretold here and throughout Isaiah's prophecy

(Isaiah 5:7)
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

• The OFFICIAL declaration of who the vineyard is
  

(Isaiah 5:8)
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

• Rich, arrogant people who buy up land all around themselves, hoping to leave no room for the "lesser fortunate" and "eyesores" and "white trash"and "seedier elements"
• This continues today and the woes to those are many
  

Luke 6:24-25
But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation. Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

(Luke 11:42)
But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
 (Isaiah 5:9-10)
In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

• Empty mansions
• Unfruitful vineyards, ten acres yielding seven gallons and one pint!
  

BATH, n.
 1. A place for bathing; a convenient vat or receptacle of water for persons to plunge or wash their bodies in. Baths are warm or tepid, hot or cold, more generally called warm and cold. They are also natural or artificial. Natural baths are those which consist of spring water, either hot or cold, which is often impregnated with iron, and called chalybeate, or with sulphur, carbonic acid, and other mineral qualities. These waters are often very efficacious in scorbutic, bilious, dyspeptic and other complaints.
 2. A place in which heat is applied to a body immersed in some substance. Thus,
 A dry bath is made of hot sand, ashes, salt,or other matter, for the purpose of applying heat to a body immersed in them.
 A vapor bath is formed by filling an apartment with hot steam or vapor, in which the body sweats copiously, as in Russia; or the term is used for the application of hot steam to a diseased part of the body.
 A metalline bath is water impregnated with iron or other metallic substance, and applied to a diseased part.
 In chimistry, a wet bath is formed by hot water in which is placed a vessel containing the matter which requires a softer heat than the naked fire.
 In medicine, the animal bath is made by wrapping the part affected in a warm skin just taken from an animal.
 3. A house for bathing. In some eastern countries, baths are very magnificent edifices.
 4. A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or seven gallons and four pints, as a measure for liquids; and three pecks and three pints, as a dry measure.

(Isaiah 5:11)
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

• Many woes from alcohol abuse, so no one needs another, especially from God!
• Early morning to night is basically every..........waking..........minute..........drunk
  

(Isaiah 5:12)
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

• Music intended for worship is now for drunken orgies
• God is forgotten, His Glory and His Handiwork
  

(Isaiah 5:13)
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

• Another laundry list done, the final result is revealed
• They no longer even know God
• They are hungry and thirsty for the wrong things, so remain so
  

(Matthew 5:6)
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

(John 6:35)
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

(John 7:37)
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

(Isaiah 5:14)
Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

• Hell was smaller; they have forced God to make it larger to fit them
• This is a stinging indictment
• Their own glory
• Their large numbers, all alike
• Their pomp, only otherwise spoken of in the enemy and Egypt (type of the world)
• Pomp seems to be associated with power and strength,  perhaps also trust in their armies
  

(Matthew 25:41)
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

THE ENEMY
(Isaiah 14:11)
Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.


ISRAEL
(Ezekiel 7:24)
Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
(Ezekiel 33:28)
For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.

EGYPT
(Ezekiel 30:18)
At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

(Ezekiel 32:12)
By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

KING AGRIPPA
(Acts 25:23)
And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.

(Isaiah 5:15-16)
And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:  But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

• This is a repitition of a previous pronunciation of judgment

(Isaiah 2:11)
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

(Isaiah 5:17)
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

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(2 Kings 25:12)
But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

(Isaiah 5:18)
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

• They were hauling their sins around with them, hitching their carts to it, proudly
• "Cords of vanity" implies either that God will easily break them, or simply it is vanity to haul one's sins with them
  

(Isaiah 5:19)
That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

• The ultimate arrogance of brazenly taunting, daring and challenging God!
• It is like saying, "What's He gonna do to us?  What CAN He do to us?"

(Isaiah 5:20)
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

• Another woe, this time to the values reversers
• PRIDE--------- >>>>COMPROMISE--------- >>>>OUTRIGHT FLAGRANT SIN--------- >>>>CALLING SIN GOOD AND VICE VERSA
• This is the typical mindset of the flesh
  

(Isaiah 5:21)
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

• A lack of fear makes on wise in his own eyes
• Proverbs 3:5-10:
• Trust God
• Forget the fleshly mind
• Acknowledge God
• Be led by God
• Have God's wisdom, not your own
• Fear God
• Depart from evil (a natural consequence) and go to God
• Gain health from it as a benefit, promised by God
• Give back to God
• God will bless back

Proverbs 3:5-10
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.  Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.  It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:  So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

(Isaiah 5:22-23)
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:  Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

• "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" Lord Acton
• Today it is fine wines and brandy in sniffers
• Deciding the fates of others by consensus
• Reversing evil and good
  

(Isaiah 5:24)
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

• Firy judgment from their enemies
• Dying on the vine, rotting on the ground
• God is inseparable from His Word 
• Reject one, reject both-below are just a few examples of the Living and Written Word being compared with the same description, throughout Scripture
  

THE STATE OF SINFUL MAN
1 Peter 1:24-25 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.


GOD AND HIS WORD-INSEPARABLE
READ http://christs-disciples.blogspot.com/2013/11/psalm-119.html

BORN AGAIN BY THE LIVING AND WRITTEN WORD
(1 Peter 1:23)
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

(John 3:3)
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

(John 3:7)
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

(John 1:1)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

(John 1:14)
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.


(John 8:24)
I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

RIGHTEOUSNESS
(Psalms 119:137)
TZADDI. Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.

TRUTH
(John 14:6)
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

(John 17:17)
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

PRECIOUS
(1 Samuel 3:1)
And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision.

(1 Peter 2:6)
Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
IN HEAVEN

(John 3:13)
And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

(Psalms 119:89)
LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

A SPIRIT
(John 4:24)
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
(John 6:63)
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.


PERFECT
(Psalms 19:7)
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

(Matthew 5:48)
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

ETERNAL
(Matthew 24:35)
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

(Matthew 5:18)
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

 (1 Peter 1:23)
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

(Deuteronomy 33:27)
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.

LIGHT
(Psalms 119:105)
NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

(Genesis 1:3)
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

(John 1:4)
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

(John 8:12)
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Isaiah 60:19-20
The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

(Revelation 22:5)
And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

(Isaiah 5:25)
Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

• Mercy and grace in the midst of a judgment God does not want but is forced by His Holiness
• This is how and why parents discipline their children
• They do not want to
• They must for the sake of the child and because of the child's actions
• They ask them to repent and come back before, during and after

(Isaiah 5:26)
And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:

• One sign that the nation is not pleasing the LORD is that their enemies are definitely not "at peace" with Israel!
• Raising a flag and hissing to get therm to come means they are ripe for judgment

(Proverbs 16:7)
When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

(Isaiah 5:27)
None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

• Everything is prepared for this army, and they will remain battle-ready

(Isaiah 5:28)
Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

• Archers with bows back and honed arrows-lethal combos
• The striking of flint to make a fire is fast, hence the speed of the horses and chariot wheels spinning like a tornado

(Isaiah 5:29)
Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

• Young lions are not part of a pride and therefore must hunt on their own, making them very successful
• Lions are the only social cat, like members of an army
  

(Isaiah 5:30)
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

• The sound of both an angry lion and an angry sea are loud, constant, intimidating

Isaiah Chapter 4 

(Isaiah 4:1)
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

• This is the consequence of the lack of men from the war threatened in chapter 3: a lack of men
• This is a 7:1 ratio of women to men, making them so desperate to have children they are willing to do it without marriage.

REPROACH, v.t. [L. prox, in proximus.]
 1. To censure in terms of opprobrium or contempt.
 Mezentius with his ardor warm'd his fainting friends, reproach'd their shameful flight, repell'd the victors.
 2. To charge with a fault in severe language.
 That shame there sit not, and reproach us as unclean.
 3. To upbraid; to suggest blame for any thing. A man's conscience will reproach him for a criminal, mean or unworthy action.
 4. To treat with scorn or contempt. Luke 6.
 REPROACH, n.
 1. Censure mingled with contempt or derision; contumelious or opprobrious language towards any person; abusive reflections; as foul-mouthed reproach.
 2. Shame; infamy; disgrace.
 Give not thine heritage to reproach. Joel 2. Isa 4.
 3. Object of contempt, scorn or derision.
 Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we may be no more a reproach. Neh 2.
 4. That which is the cause of shame or disgrace. Gen 30.

(Isaiah 3:25)
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

TAKING AWAY REPROACH
(Genesis 30:23)
And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:

(Psalms 119:39)
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.


(Luke 1:24)
And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying,  Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.

(Isaiah 4:2-3)
In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.  And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:

• This is obviously the Millennial Kingdom and the Reign of Jesus Christ on the earth
• Israel here is the branch, Jesus being the Vine

(Isaiah 11:1)

And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

(John 15:2)

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

(John 15:4)

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

(John 15:5)

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

(John 15:6)

If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

(Isaiah 4:4)
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

• When there is no repentance from sin, then there must be judgment
• THE LORD alone purges sin
• The sins were  bloody, murderous
• This was the women (daughters) as well as the men
• The spiritual meaning is intense-filth, washing, blood, purging, fire, judgment, sin
• The word "filth" in various forms is used 35 times in Scripture, all of which refer to man himself, his behaviour, his cities, his mouth, his clothing, his money, etc.
• In all instances it needs washing

FILTH

FILTHINESS OF ISRAEL

(2 Chronicles 29:5)

And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

(Isaiah 28:8)

For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

(Lamentations 1:9)

Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.

(Ezekiel 16:36)

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;

(Ezekiel 22:15)

And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.

(Ezekiel 24:11)

Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.

(Ezekiel 24:13)

In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

(Ezekiel 36:25)

Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

(Zephaniah 3:1)

Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!

(Zechariah 3:3)

Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.

(Zechariah 3:4)

And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

FILTHINESS OF THE HEATHEN

(Ezra 6:21)

And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,

(Ezra 9:11)

Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.

(2 Peter 2:7)

And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

NINEVEH, ASSYRIA

(Nahum 3:6)

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

ALL OF MANKIND 

(Job 15:16)

How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

(Psalms 14:3)

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

(Psalms 53:3)

Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

(Proverbs 30:12)

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

(Isaiah 64:6)

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

(Revelation 22:11)

He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

THE CHURCH

(1 Corinthians 4:13)

Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

(2 Corinthians 7:1)

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

(James 1:21)

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

(1 Peter 3:21)

The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

FALSE TEACHERS IN THE CHURCH
(Jude 1:8)

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

THE MOUTH

(Ephesians 5:4)

Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

(Colossians 3:8)

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

THE MONEY

(1 Timothy 3:3)

Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

(1 Timothy 3:8)

Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

(Titus 1:7)

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

(Titus 1:11)

Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

(1 Peter 5:2)

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

MYSTERY BABYLON, THE HARLOT

(Revelation 17:4)

And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

(Isaiah 4:5)
And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

• Again this has to be the Millennial Kingdom
• This is a repeat of the Exodus from Egypt

(Exodus 13:21)
And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:

(Isaiah 4:6)
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

• God is to be our shelter, our home, our refuge

(Psalms 9:9)

The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

 COVERT, n. 

 1. A covering, or covering place; a place which covers and shelters; a shelter; a defense.

 A tabernacle--for a covert from storm and rain. Isa 4. 

 I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Psa 111.

 2. A thicket; a shady place, or a hiding place. 1 Sam 25. Job 38. 

Isaiah Chapter 3

(Isaiah 3:1)

For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

• God is the Provider and Sustainer, ultimately

• The staff was a support for leaning and a way to guide sheep

• Food and water make Him the life-giver as well

• Therefore, the support to walk and the support for basic needs...gone

• The military, the judicial, the religious, the careful, the old, the wise, the artist and the politician/speaker

• The immature over the older, barely more mature

• Had they acted mature, they could have rightly led

• The very oppression that they practiced upon others will return upon their own heads

• It is one thing to be humbled by someone greater, but to be humbled by someone lesser is even more so.

• Jesus is the Creator of all of mankind, yet He humbled Himself enough to be subject to and subsequently crucified by His own creation

• Crucifixion was the most humble death available, to be tortured

• "Every one" is repeated here, indicating that this will indeed be universal

• In desperation, people will take another leader-anything but a child will work for them

• Today we  say, "I am the judge here; I wear the robes"

The people  want the responsibility to be laid upon the ruler they choose to blame for the ruin, instead of themselves.

"If someone else is in charge (no matter who), someone else is to blame for this mess!"

• They lacked the wisdom to choose properly, so they choose improperly, just to shift the blame

• The father will say, "Hey, I am in the same boat as you, don't pin this on me!".

• Actions speak louder than words but, in this case, both actions and words are against their own Creator, Sustainer, Redeemer.......their own God 

• Just the look on their faces alone-the prideful look, gives them away

• It is the first of the things listed in God's list of what He hates.

• This is a repeated theme in Scripture: rewards for the just and also the wicked

• The leadership being humbled under women and children is a sign of

• God standing up............not common. This is serious

• This is all part of the oppression, which ruins any country

• The vineyard here being themselves, their country

• Burning the vineyard was something your enemy would do in conquest

• 1 Kings 21 records the stealing by Jezebel of Naboth's vineyard by murdering him, which led to Jezebel being eaten by dog's fulfilling God's prophecy to Elisha

(Isaiah 5:1)

• Oppression can be so brutal as to be like (or even include) physical violence, assault

• These princesses are in their supreme arrogance, thinking that they are better than others

• They were not chosen because they were better than others, better than the Gentiles

• God specifically TOLD them this

• Necks, eyes, feet, for the eyes and the ears

• Women with scabs on their heads......no a pretty sight

• Their privates will also have problems,  indicating judgment on their physical relations

• Bravery=showiness

• Cauls were used to encase the head (hair sp.) or the face as a veil

• Golden chains, and bracelets-jewelry

• Mufflers-scarves for the face and neck

• Fine suits, cloaks and capes (mantles), hoods, veils, curling pins (crisping pins)

• The glasses would have to be mirrors, due to the context of external physical appearance and personal examination of one's beauty

• Out with the perfumes

• Girdles to rags

• Hair falling out.......even in the women (v.17)

• Bras gone as well, exposing the breasts, replaced with mourning sackcloths

• Faces very ugly with permanent damage

STOMACHER, n. An ornament or support to the breast, worn by females. Isa 3.

• Judgment on the military, and captivity

• The gates were the entering in, the hangout place for the rich, etc. and protection of the city

• Sackcloths above for the mourning about to come

• The strength of the gate of any city was part of its strength, fortress, entrance

STAY, n.

 1. Continuance in a place; abode for a time indefinite; as, you make a short stay in this city.

 Embrace the hero, and his stay implore.

 2. Stand; stop; cessation of motion or progression.

 Affairs of state See md rather to stand at a stay.

 [But in this sense, we now use stand; to be at a stand.]

 3. Stop; obstruction; hinderance from progress.

 Grievd with each step, tormented with each stay.

 4. Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.

 With prudent stay, he long deferrd the rough contention.

 5. A fixed state.

 Alas, what stay is there in human state!

 6. Prop; support.

 Trees serve as so many stays for their vines.

 My only strength and stay!

 The Lord is my stay. Psa 18.

 The stay and the staff, the means of supporting and preserving life. Isa 3.

 7. Steadiness of conduct.

 8. In the rigging of a ship, a large strong rope employed to support the mast, by being extended from its upper end to the stem of the ship. The fore-stay reaches from the foremast head towards the bowsprit end; the main-stay extends to the ships stem; the mizen-stay is stretched to a collar on the main-mast, above the quarter deck, _c.

 Stays, in seamanship, implies the operation of going about or changing the course of a ship, with a shifting of the sails. To be in stays, is to lie with the head to the wind, and the sails so arranged as to check her progress.

 To miss stays, to fail in the attempt to go about.

(Isaiah 3:2-3)

The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

(Isaiah 3:4)

And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

(Isaiah 3:5)

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

Philippians 2:5-8

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:  But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:  And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

(Isaiah 3:6)

When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

(Isaiah 3:7)

In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.

(Isaiah 3:8)

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

(Isaiah 3:9)The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

Proverbs 6:16-19

These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,  An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,  A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

(Isaiah 3:10-11)

Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

THE REWARDS

(Matthew 16:27)

For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.

(Job 34:11)

For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

Romans 2:6-11

Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;  But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God.

Revelation 20:12-14  

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

(Daniel 7:10)

A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.

Romans 14:11-12

For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.  So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

(Isaiah 3:12)

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

(Isaiah 3:13)

The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

(Genesis 28:13)

And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;

(Ezekiel 3:23)

Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.

 (Acts 7:55)

But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

(Isaiah 3:14)

The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

1 Kings 21:1-29

And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.

And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.

And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?

And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.

And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.

And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:

And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.

And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.

They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.

Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.

And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.

And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

(Isaiah 3:15)

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

(Isaiah 3:16)

Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

Deuteronomy 7:6-8 (KJV)

For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

(Isaiah 3:17)

Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.

(Isaiah 3:18)

In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,

BRA'VERY, n. Courage; heroism; undaunted spirit; intrepidity; gallantry; fearlessness of danger; often united with generosity or dignity of mind which despises meanness and cruelty, and disdains to take advantage of a vanquished enemy.

 The duelist, in proving his bravery, shows that he thinks it suspected.

 1. Splendor; magnificence; showy appearance.

 The bravery of their tinkling ornaments. Isa 3.

 2. Show; ostentation; fine dress.

 3. Bravado; boast.

 4. A showy person.

 [In the last four senses, this word is nearly antiquated.]

CAUL, n.

 1. In anatomy, a membrane in the abdomen, covering the greatest part of the lower intestines, called from its structure, reticuluim, a net, but more generally, the omentum; also, a little membrane sometimes encompassing the head of a child when born.

 2. A kind of net in which females inclose their hair; the hinder part of a cap.

 3. Any kind of net.

(Isaiah 3:19)

The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

MUF'FLER, n. A cover for the face; a part of female dress.

(Isaiah 3:20)

The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,

·        Bonnets-hats

·        Tablets-finely made boxes of wood, marble, porcelain, etc., perhaps for jewelry or perfumes

TAB'LET, n. A small table or flat surface.

 1. Something flat on which to write, paint, draw or engrave.

 Through all Greece the young gentlemen learned to design on tablets of boxen wood.

 The pillar'd marble, and the tablet brass.

 2. A medicine in a square form. Tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

 A solid kind of electuary or confection, made of dry ingredients, usually with sugar, and formed into little flat squares; called also lozenge and troche.

(Isaiah 3:21)

The rings, and nose jewels,

·        Jewelry for the fingers and noses-any place jewelry could hang they hung it for show

(Isaiah 3:22)

The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,

WIMPLE, n. [G., a pendant.] A hood or vail. Isa 3.

 v.t. To draw down, as a vail.

CRISPING, ppr. Curling; frizzling.

(Isaiah 3:23)

The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.

GL`ASS, n. [L. glastum; glesid, blueness. Greenness is usually named from vegetation or growing, as L. viridis, from vireo.]

 1. A hard, brittle, transparent, factitious substance, formed by fusing sand with fixed alkalies.

 In chimistry, a substance or mixture, earthy, saline or metallic, brought by fusion to the state of a hard, brittle, transparent mass, whose fracture is conchoidal.

 2. A glass vessel of any kind; as a drinking glass.

 3. A mirror; a looking-glass.

 4. A vessel to be filled with sand for measuring time; as an hour-glass.

 5. The destined time of man's life. His glass is run.

 6. The quantity of liquor that a glass vessel contains. Drink a glass of wine with me.

 7. A vessel that shows the weight of the air.

 8. A perspective glass; as an optic glass.

 9. The time which a glass runs, or in which it is exhausted of sand. The seamen's watch-glass is half an hour. We say, a ship fought three glasses.

 10. Glasses, in the plural, spectacles.

 GL`ASS, a. Made of glass; vitreous; as a glass bottle.

 GL`ASS, v.t. To See as in a glass. [Not used.]

 1. To case in glass. [Little used.]

 2. To cover with glass; to glaze.

 [In the latter sense, glaze is generally used.]

(Isaiah 3:24)

And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

(Isaiah 3:25)

Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

(Isaiah 3:26)

And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

GATE, n.

 1. A large door which gives entrance into a walled city, a castle, a temple, palace or other large edifice. It differs from door chiefly in being larger. Gate signifies both the opening or passage, and the frame of boards, planks or timber which closes the passage.

 2. A frame of timber which opens or closes a passage into any court, garden or other inclosed ground; also, the passage.

 3. The frame which shuts or stops the passage of water through a dam into a flume.

 4. An avenue; an opening; a way.

 In scripture, figuratively, power, dominion. ""Thy Seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;"" that is, towns and fortresses. Gen 22.

 The gates of hell, are the power and dominion of the devil and his instruments. Mat 16.

 The gates of death, are the brink of the grave. Psa 9.

(Genesis 22:17)

That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

(Genesis 24:60)

And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.